I'll often end up changing outfits to feel more masculine.
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Mr. Sanders's speech has been getting more masculine over time.
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Georgia: Nowadays we're much more monochrome, a bit more masculine.
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It will transform the rose, make the rose smell more masculine.
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I'll feel more masculine one day and more feminine another day.
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Do you think mullets make you seem more masculine or feminine?
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That is a more masculine trait: I hate to say it.
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Some days, I feel more feminine, and others, I feel more masculine.
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Widely regarded as being more masculine and certainly more gangsta than Barack.
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"Switching to more masculine speech and mannerisms wears me out," she said.
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Maybe he swiped right on the photo where you look more masculine.
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Female candidates were given lower than standard voices to sound more masculine.
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I saw myself grow more masculine, and it sent me into a depression.
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It has always been considered more violent, more masculine — the sporting world's antihero.
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His works have informed some of the more masculine elements in this series.
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The more masculine-style dress is made for a "take no shit" ruler.
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Is there something about American culture and priorities that yield more masculine dudes?
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I'm a gay woman; my girlfriend likes a more masculine scent on me.
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The faces were slightly digitally altered to be more masculine- or feminine-looking; i.e.
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For me, it means more masculine styles that fit my traditionally female body type.
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You're an amazing writer/musician/[ more masculine creative passion ], and you're driving an Uber.
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Grimm began hormone treatment to deepen his voice and give him a more masculine appearance.
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Its bulky, thick design also looks more masculine than the more unisex Gear S2 designs.
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So yeah, your granddad was literally more masculine than you, by at least one metric.
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They initially focused their efforts on creating shirting for women who preferred more masculine clothes.
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So it really was an under-acknowledged revolution when women started adopting more masculine poses.
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The treatment softened her facial features before she could develop a more masculine bone structure.
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I tried putting on a more masculine expression, and that was entirely new to me.
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Men don't need more masculine posturing or promises to restore them to forever-gone greatness.
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There's a range of feminine and more masculine designs, so there's something to fit everyone's style.
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It's seen as If you're more masculine/feminine, then you're more trans, but that's such bullshit.
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If you're a female Ebay hustler, you might consider changing your username to something more masculine.
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Jobs that were mostly female in 21979 and have become more masculine are lower-status jobs.
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All three fall outside of the gender binary, but define themselves as more masculine than feminine.
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I usually go for guys who look a bit more masculine—not the overly flamboyant types.
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His wish was to be perceived as more masculine yet not male, feminine yet not female.
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What happens when someone is more feminine-presenting in contrast to when someone is more masculine-presenting?
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Some of us are more feminine or more masculine with no correlation to what gender we are.
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When she hit puberty, she became anxious and depressed about how her body was becoming more masculine.
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He now feels comfortable expressing all sides of his personality, whether that be more masculine or feminine.
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But a stereotype persists—of gay men sounding feminine, and lesbian women sounding huskier, or more masculine.
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So does the perception that liberal arts careers are more feminine while STEM careers are more masculine.
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The behaviors people use to gain access to powerful individuals, important information, or opportunities are more masculine.
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Some days I feel more feminine, some more masculine, and some days I'm somewhere in the middle.
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The concoction of a chronically contrite Obama made the anti-apologetic Trump seem more masculine, more American.
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"'Kinky' made me feel more masculine and grounded than I ever felt in my life," he said.
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In situations when Do feels challenged, she said, she feels more masculine and expresses herself in that way.
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Meanwhile, the more "male" chores (yard work, car maintenance) were assigned to the partner with more "masculine" qualities.
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Russell is constantly put-upon by his mother-in-law and emasculated by a beefier, more masculine neighbor.
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On the right, the more masculine parlor is trimmed in polished mahogany and the wall silk is cream.
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And that makes a difference in their appearance, particularly as appearing more masculine or feminine affects their dating chances.
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When June and Pride Month came, though, I cut it in a more masculine version of a pixie cut.
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People surveyed online in the US and India also perceived voiced names, whether real or invented, as more masculine.
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While some watches lend themselves to more masculine or feminine aesthetics, the entire collection is designed to be unisex.
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I wore pantsuits and never fancy heels, always a stacked heel ... to convey more masculine traits, authority and power.
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I'm all about breaking rules, but somehow in this situation I feel more comfortable dressing more masculine, minimal, simple.
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Sometimes these individuals may identify or express themselves as more masculine on some days, and more feminine on others.
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Bernie Sanders whipped up a custom cocktail for supporters at events, but bartending is markedly a more masculine activity.
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"The conservatives' God was perceived as more masculine, older, more powerful, and wealthier than the liberals' God," the study finds.
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If you present as a more masculine lesbian, then you're ugly, you're a man, you're a dyke, you're a threat.
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The dining room was a more masculine room, with a vintage wooden table as the centerpiece surrounded by muted chairs.
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From silky, kimono-esque styles to more masculine-inspired ones, we highly recommend you add this staple to your closet.
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Like many trans women, Manning had joined the military in a misguided attempt to transform herself into something more masculine.
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The guys who had been rated as less masculine were considered significantly more masculine when they put on scented deodorant.
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The suspects were forced to cut their hair to look more "masculine" and were later released without charge, media said.
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Instead of the manic lankiness that danced him through Con Air, he is now a lumbering and more masculine presence.
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Parliament remains woefully removed from the people it serves, being less diverse and more masculine than the population at large.
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"The salon is a feminine dream," Mr. Starck said, emphasizing how the dining room contrasts with the more masculine lounge.
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She was conscripted in 2007 and told Amnesty she was ordered to lower her voice and walk more "masculine" during training.
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As Ewing adopted a more masculine hairstyle and clothing, they said, people started to yell "Queer!" at them from passing trucks.
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On the other hand, 67 percent of respondents believed that the more masculine partner should handle automobile maintenance and outdoor chores.
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The bigger the cock, the bigger the load, and the more masculine the man whose seed will be inside of me.
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When Orellana actively dresses more masculine or feminine, their appearance is more consistently read or experienced as a man or woman.
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Did you know — and this is a scientific fact — that Canadian lumberjacks are, on average, 25% more masculine than American lumberjacks?
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In "Life in Pieces," at 8:103, Greg decides he needs to be more masculine after meeting Jen's handsome new assistant.
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Style-wise, the Aspen skews feminine while a companion pair, the Divide, is more masculine, but both are technically gender-neutral.
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For queer women seeking to adopt a more masculine-of-center look, the transformation is often its own kind of coming out.
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They were then shown a pair of faces (one more masculine than the other) and asked to rate which was more attractive.
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"Sportswomen are already viewed as more masculine," said Lohman, 37, who is openly lesbian and retired from professional football earlier this year.
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There's no equivalent category to "teenybopper" for boys, no specific language of derision for what are perceived as more masculine music obsessions.
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I altered the illusion in order to make my eyes look smaller, my jaw line more square and more masculine in general.
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I was also interested in exploring more masculine denim silhouettes, so I set out to find a brand that checked both boxes.
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My newfound appreciation for the exploratory aspects of Halloween also raises an interesting question: Why not dress more masculine in real life?
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Here is me as the photo was taken, more masculine, younger, and more feminine (starting from the top left and moving clockwise).
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We live in a heteronormative culture that perceives my wife as more masculine and therefore not the one to carry our child.
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As soon as I cut my hair and started dressing more masculine, though, all of the above started happening pretty much immediately.
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"Man is never more masculine than after the birth of his first child," he said in his most recent Esquire sit-down.
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While a person's "grooming style" also factored in to the computer algorithm, essentially suggesting gay women appeared more masculine and vice versa.
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An androgyne person may feel more masculine than feminine, more feminine than masculine, or an equal amount of both at any given time.
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That forces many trans women to choose between more masculine styles and the hyper-sexualised designs of specialist retailers - with nothing in between.
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You can find so much: I dress a bit femme-ier; one of my roommates looks for business attire; another dresses more masculine.
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While more masculine than some of Vans' previous Disney endeavors, we're sure that won't stop mega-fans from counting down to its arrival.
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If you're talking about something that's more masculine, then you want drape straighter, so it looks more like a line than a curve.
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Later, when a more masculine spirit takes over, Ada starts wearing men's clothes and undergoes surgery to achieve a "fine balance" of gender.
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Other butches noticed how people treated the more masculine woman in the relationship differently, assuming they would be less nurturing with the kids.
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She compared Wonder Crew to other, traditionally feminine products that have been repackaged in more masculine guises — like diaper bags marketed to men.
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Cartoonist Laerte Coutinho similarly modified his voice throughout the reading, but assuming higher or lower, more feminine or more masculine tones of voice.
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Ms. Ferraro "lacked the credibility of a male candidate, adopted a stronger, more masculine style that may have suited her less," Ms. Graveline said.
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What shocked Ms Miller was her daughter's declaration that she wished to make her body more masculine by taking testosterone and having a mastectomy.
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They added in more masculine textures like alligator skin boxes and a dark wood bookcase to balance out the floral patterns and faux fur.
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Specifically, he and his colleagues could not find any statistically significant relationship between the levels of any hormones and preferences for more masculine faces.
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Two months later, he said, he started wearing a chest binder to minimize the appearance of his breasts and help him look more masculine.
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Did getting rid of my breasts to become more masculine mean that I was accepting the very conventions of gender I felt trapped by?
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The great thing about queer masculinity is that they've been socialised as women, [but they also] have this window into a more masculine experience.
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He explains that both sexes judge men with beards as older and more masculine, and describe them as generous, sincere, industrious and self-confident.
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It's designed to have a more masculine feel, from its leather couch to its dark-stained bookshelf (with books sorted by color, of course).
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The hope was to make a bigger splash in the women's business and shift the perception that Under Armour's stores are typically more masculine.
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As a lady I don't hold that against it, lots of devices have more masculine design, but I did get joking comments about it. Often.
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It seemed like coming out and then dressing more masculine on top of everything would doom any chance I had left of experiencing heterosexual love.
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Or even the reboot of "Queer Eye": Antoni Porowski and Karamo Brown are the heartthrobs in part because they're more masculine than Jonathan Van Ness.
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I wear a lot of stuff from Clocks and Colours — necklaces and rings that are skulls and on the more masculine, dark side of things.
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The story and illustrations of Kim and Kim are told through a decidedly feminine lens, a departure from many of the more masculine feeling mainstream comics.
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Aniya has always preferred to dress more masculine, so when she was planning to attend Bishop McDevitt High School's prom, she knew a dress wouldn't do.
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He forgets that even superhero comics have moments of levity or sorrow or something else in between their masculine brooding and their even-more-masculine punching.
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The director of Them That Follow, about an obscure American Pentecostal sect, remembers feeling pressure to appear more masculine, so she would be taken more seriously.
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But when she turned her head she looked far more masculine: the bossing of her brow showed in profile, as did the length of her jaw.
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Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell star as a father and stepfather doing battle for the affection of their two children (or who can be more masculine).
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LK I like things that are comfortable, stretchy, slightly more masculine, and Fernando likes a little more corseted … FG A big flowy dress with a belt.
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While some figures in the Matters of the Heart series appear to be more masculine than others, Rodwittiya's lack of concern with overt femininity seeps through.
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Overall, about one in five students described themselves as either equally masculine and feminine, as females who were more masculine, or as males who were more feminine.
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He's a lot more masculine, but we make our home, which we will next year, we have to figure out a way to meet in the middle.
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Instead, it was the women who had more masculine traits — who deviated from what we think of as feminine — who received the most unwanted advances and remarks.
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She hopes to find an intelligent partner who has a great sense of humor and isn't afraid to take on a more masculine role in the relationship.
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But we don't all look the same, and juxtaposing Jenner's more "masculine" traits with her sexuality plays into stereotypes that misrepresent the queer community as a whole.
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At 71:41, the new version is 11 instrumental minutes longer; at 25, its creator is a phlegmier, more masculine singer who's clearly not a teen anymore.
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Gradually, his voice dropped, facial hair grew in, his periods stopped, his neck and jaw thickened, and his body fat shifted, giving him a more masculine build.
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Deep down, I suppose I knew that I'd face more judgement from internet and IRL trolls if I did opt for a more masculine or androgynous hairstyle.
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Every couple of months, photos from FaceApp—a face-editing app that uses neural network to make users look younger, older, more feminine, or more masculine—goes viral.
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If we assume dolls dictate young girls' self image, how do we account for women ditching aprons to enter the workforce in droves, taking on more masculine roles?
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Simultaneously, I felt a competing pressure observing styles in the queer womxn community to dress more masculine to attract girls or present more queer to make flirting easier.
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The face I see in the mirror is slightly more masculine and serious than the one that greets me ordinarily but the difference is subtler than I'd imagined.
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People tend to see faces that appear happy and have stereotypically feminine features as more trustworthy, while those with more masculine characteristics, like strong jawlines, are perceived as leaders.
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When working on traditionally feminine domestic work like cooking, fathers emphasized that they were not only cooking but "hacking the kitchen," imbuing daily tasks with more masculine entrepreneurial language.
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In the expectations of being assigned female at birth, people who are non-binary, the expectation is that if we have surgeries, it's to look more masculine or androgynous.
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"I noticed that the more masculine I was, the more society accepted me, which was a huge mindfuck, because I had existed completely feminine my entire life," she says.
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"I wanted to very subtly make the women's floor more masculine and the men's floor more feminine—to say, in a way, that things are changing," she told me.
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I had—and still have—a lot of trouble with toxic masculinity and the way men treat women, so it was difficult taking the steps to become more masculine.
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Knowing other boys didn't feel that way, and feeling pressure from society to be more masculine, Perry said he struggled to fit in while growing up in the 903s.
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Research suggests that society places a subtle but strong pressure on young girls to choose more "feminine" areas like the humanities, instead of the more "masculine" fields like STEM.
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Most had long hair with a natural flip; some, a few strands falling over the forehead; and others had hair tucked behind the ears, for a more masculine edge.
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We can attach sentiment to it, and many people will feel more masculine or feminine or neutral with more or less or no hair, but that's personal expression, not objective.
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Its spring 2019 collection saw conventionally feminine motifs, like fringe, ruffles, English embroidery, and soft florals, paired well with more masculine pieces, like leather jackets, hoodies, cargo pants, and stiff denim.
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The 33-year-old actress is featured in a new in-depth profile for The Guardian where she opened up about exploring the more masculine side of women with her roles.
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We meet three of them throughout the opening: the reclusive Alice Fletcher (Michelle Dockery), the newly more masculine Mary Agnes (Merritt Wever), and perpetually worried single mom Sadie Rose (Kayli Carter).
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Gender was more influential among lesbian and gay partners than it was in straight partners, who are all about sex, regardless of which partner actually had more masculine or feminine qualities.
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The other two fragrances, Nirvana Black and Bourbon have much more masculine feel than what I normally wear, so I deemed those my "night-out" scents thanks to their sensual notes.
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" Some internet men are experiencing so much cognitive dissonance over all of these social changes that they've come up with a new, more masculine term for tending to their appearance: "looksmaxing.
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This was followed by the pink-hued "Girl Power" of the 1990s, which moved away from the more masculine-presenting tomboy toward an image that seemed to comfort the male gaze.
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A new set of participants (who didn't rate the original photos) described the averaged photo of God as being younger, more masculine, attractive, whiter, intelligent, and loving compared the anti-God photo.
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It fuses a mix of tuberose and rich, vibrant woods and has a bottle designed with curves and rose gold adornments to give its traditionally more masculine flask a more feminine look.
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It also speaks to the two different sides of Rock: The side that likes to be more feminine, and the other side that wants to express itself in a more masculine manner.
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More controversially, Kosinski and Wang's paper claimed that the program based its decision on differences in facial structure; that gay men's faces were more feminine and lesbian women's faces were more masculine.
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It was one of the first conscious style changes I made as I was moving toward a more masculine presentation, but it was also one of the toughest things to compromise on.
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In May 2012, at the age of 443, he started taking testosterone, and in January 2013 he underwent a double mastectomy (also known as top surgery) to create a more masculine physique.
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As a more masculine presenting lesbian—and a female who lifts weights—Campbell challenges society's assumptions about how queer (and non-queer) females work out, what they wear, and how they look.
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Middle-class, once-thin gay guys in Africa and China are joining newly opened Western-style gyms, drinking supplemental shakes and bulking up to appear more masculine, more manly and more desirable.
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When I did start presenting in a more masculine way and started accepting who I am, I suddenly became a lot more confident and felt actually comfortable with myself and thought, Yeah!
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I wear anything and everything that looks good - to me; from women's clothing that looks more 'masculine' (women's boxy blazers are tailored works of art) to men's clothing that look more 'feminine'.
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In a paper published in 2003 in PNAS, Dr. Arnold showed that in gynandromorphic zebra finches, brain cells on the female side were more masculine than comparable cells in a typical female.
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There was also a moment, when I first started sixth grade, when the transition started, where [I went] from trying to present more masculine or as a gay man to being a woman.
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"Gay men have fetishized straight men to some degree based on seeing them as more masculine," says Joe Kort, a gay sex and relationship psychotherapist who works primarily with an LGBTQ+ client base.
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The Department of Defense (DOD) wastes billions on projects totally unrelated to defense, like research on fish behavior and whether men holding guns are perceived to be more masculine than those holding tools.
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It made me realize two things: how much power women acquire by adopting a more masculine style, and even more so, how much power men give up by expressing anything that's deemed feminine.
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Even when I started presenting in a more masculine way and my partner would call me beautiful, I'd feel really uncomfortable with it and I'd ask her to use something like 'handsome' instead.
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"Modern people are not stoic and blank faced compared to our ancient ancestors," he says adding that the primary result of excessive facial exercise will be to look older, more masculine, and less attractive.
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Though Waldan watches are theoretically unisex, the designs will have a more masculine presence and incorporate modern materials, like carbon fiber, but retain the vintage Swiss movements that the company is known for using.
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"Some options are more feminine-presenting, while others are more masculine-presenting, which allows kids to combine the elements anyway they want to," said Kim Culmone, senior vice president of Mattel Fashion Doll Design.
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Some options are more feminine-presenting, while others are more masculine-presenting, which allows kids to combine the elements any way they want to, said Kim Culmone, senior vice president of Mattel Fashion Doll Design.
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Image: University of North Carolina at Chapel HillThe study found conservatives imagined God as a "more masculine, older, more powerful, and wealthier" Elon Musk, while liberals envisioned a "more African American and more loving" Elon Musk.
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Only a few generations ago, pink was seen as a variation of red, which, being the shade of soldier's jackets and cardinal's cassocks, was deemed more masculine than blue, the colour of the Virgin Mary's robes.
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At first, pink was actually seen as a more masculine color, and blue was considered softer and more appropriate for girls — conventions that didn't switch until the 1940s, when gendered kids' clothing really became a thing.
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Just because I love a good midi dress or puffy-sleeved top doesn't mean I can't also dabble in, say, normcore — even if that means wearing clothing that's more "masculine" than what I usually go for.
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DeGroot hopes her husband is someone who can fill a more "masculine role" in their marriage, but only time will tell — several weeks, actually — if these two can make it further than just down the aisle.
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We were able to feature goth looks that were more masculine— industrial, for example, or those oh so classic Tripp pants—while also recognizing that androgyny and gender-bending are an essential element of this world.
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Sure, they rap, but they're not afraid of using a high, sweet melody that a more masculine-sounding group in the U.S. would be nervous to do because it's not the most macho thing in the world.
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Lines are blurring, and this newfound freedom encouraging people to embrace their own aesthetic, whether it's more masculine, more feminine, or a blend of both, and say, fuck it, I can dress however the hell I want.
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"Women are wearing more masculine things and men are more comfortable in wearing jewelry," said Lorenz Bäumer, the Parisian jeweler who riffed on the surfing lifestyle to create a diamond surfboard pendant in a neutral pearl gray.
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It could be due to ingrained assumptions about their intended audiences: If these products were meant to appeal to men, why waste effort on rendering food when one could focus on more masculine motifs, like monsters and spacecraft?
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This could be the artist herself, going by a nearby painting titled "Were-artist" (2007), where a more masculine painter has the same hands and wryly enacts the bouts of monstrousness that hard creative work can bring on.
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When Shinji and Kaworu battle in the episode's climax, the feminine voice they so eloquently captured in the episode's early moments gives way to more masculine patterns: a rasp of anger, a deepening of pitch, a suppression of weakness.
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When I had long hair and a fringe a couple of years ago, I was always coded as femme and then after that, I made a move to a slightly more masculine style and people assumed I was trans masc.
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By watching the "strong" Judalon fight back against someone as oppressive as Oziel, it's possible viewers might realize femininity, even when it belongs to someone sexual, is just as powerful as the more masculine tactics of Oziel, like intimidation and threats.
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In a world where female comedians still feel like they need to style themselves in a more masculine fashion in order to be taken seriously, Midge is decidedly dismantling that narrative, even if it is taking place in a fictional universe.
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That means that guys who self-identified as tops in the study also identified their own behavior as more masculine and tended more toward "gender-related interests"; bottoms self-identified as more expressive and as adhering to female gender roles.
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That's not to say the men in predominantly female fields go without challenges; Williams' research noted that many of the men face everything from questions about their intentions to questions about their ability to find something "better" (read: more masculine).
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It got as petty as them saying, 'People need to see that you're into sports because they'll think that's more masculine, so why don't you go buy a sports hat, take some pictures in it, and make sure people see you in it.
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The researchers then compiled the holiest images, resulting in a face that was judged by 400 survey participants as "more masculine, Caucasian, attractive, intelligent, and loving" than God's "anti-face," an aggregate of the pictures the sample of Christians did not select.
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Individuals in same-gender relationships are often assigned the roles of "mom" and "dad" by society based on who is perceived as the more feminine and more masculine partner, according to a sex and gender study about the division of household labor.
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At The Baffler, Liz Pelly examined how algorithms that serve up music for passive listeners create a more masculine listening experience overall, including creating listener patterns that influence human programmers of playlists on the service to promote the work of men over women.
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For Alex, this meant she was born without internal sex organs and ambiguous genitalia; extra skin made her female parts appear male, and the male hormones responsible for having caused her genitalia to appear male also made her overall appearance more masculine.
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"Although she has a slightly androgynous look from sort of a fashion-model point of view, Tilda's got a very feminine bone structure," said Coulier, who thickened Swinton's neck with prosthetics and built her jaw out to look heavier and more masculine.
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And yet, I've also noticed that the more masculine route of carrying … well, nothing ... can lead to men resorting to wiping their noses on their sleeves and their hands on their pants, or having terrible breath from drinking coffee or smoking a cigarette.
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Societal expectations and stigmas concerning masculinity deter men from feminine jobs, social scientists say, so some health care employers have tried to use more masculine language to appeal to men, like talking about the "adrenaline rush" of being an operating room nurse.
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I've grown a lot more muscular — what some people would call more "masculine" — so it's been a struggle, at times, and I definitely have overcome it by seeing women around me who look similar to me, and seeing what my body can do for me.
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"Paytas, who is infamous for her trolling videos and emotional outbursts, started trending because she said that she felt more masculine than feminine, that she identifies as a gay man because she is attracted to other gay men, and that she loves "glam and voluptuousness.
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The filmmakers must have thought a feminine presence was needed, so Lauren Hutton is brought along to take a few snapshots, indulge in a second-unit montage catching a plane at JFK, and try to prove that Alda is more masculine than at first glance.
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The masculine Jesus movement was really successful for a time, but it was also always a little ridiculous to so over-emphasize the more masculine aspects of the Biblical Jesus's character that he ended up seeming a little like a cast member of The Expendables.
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In the beginning, I had incredible amounts of crippling dysphoria every time I had to wear a dress at a shoot or on a runway, but I did it knowing that, eventually, I'd be able to choose my jobs (which would end up being more masculine).
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Training a person's voice to be perceived as more "masculine" or "feminine" also falls into a debate about whether it's right to expect transgender people to conform or "pass" as either masculine or feminine, relying on male-female binaries instead of understanding gender as a spectrum.
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In the 1970s, gender-neutral baby wear took hold once again, thanks to the women's movement; feminists didn't want boys and girls to be raised or treated differently, and women themselves began to dress in ways considered to be more "masculine" as they entered the workforce in larger numbers.
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It's also rare to find gender non-conforming or more masculine-of-center queer women represented in mainstream porn, even though masc-of-center people make up a large portion of the queer population and are a preference for a lot of people that is ignored in mainstream porn.
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"Looking back now, I do feel like some parts of it were reductive of Chinese culture, and that it sort of plays into some gender stereotypes — Mulan is heroic because she exhibits more 'masculine' traits, like being brave and fighting in a war, and being fairly tomboy-ish," she says.
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"When did you first realize you were transgender?" a boy asks before the conversation turns to terms the kids may or may not have heard before: transgender, agender (when you don't identify as male or female), gender fluid (you feel more masculine one day, more feminine the next) and sexual orientation.
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Or, as an Australian study reported in The Guardian surmised, even though the majority of baristas are women, male baristas are more likely to advance in their careers to the better paying, more respected industry jobs, where they often perpetuate a preference for flavor profiles that are considered more masculine.
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I'd be getting beat up so much I would end up manifesting or becoming friends with some guy who was the biggest bully at the school, and he'd kind of be my protector, but then that type of friend would always try to make me become a boy, or make me more masculine.
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That I was subjected to brainwashing tactics that forced me to stare at an empty chair and yell at a father I was supposed to hate; that I was told my "urges" were sinful, hateful to God, an abomination; that I was forced to play sports in order to become more masculine: these seem impossible realities.
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"I'm AMAB non-binary/genderqueer, and I do a lot of femme presentation things like having painted nails, short shorts, and 'women's' tank tops," they explained, telling me that when they run errands in male-dominated spaces they "usually present significantly more masculine" by hiding their painted nails and tucking their long hair under a baseball hat.
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"That's incredibly disrespectful for a transgender model, it will cause dysphoria" she explains, detailing experiences where she was sent home from shoots for famous fashion magazines for questioning why she was being asked to dress more "masculine" or play the role of both male and female (though it's worth nothing some trans models feel safer remaining androgynous, which can double as a state of protective limbo).
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" Later, she compared Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" (faulted because, having indicted a guilt-purveying upbringing, it issues "what is actually a call to Mental Health") and J. R. Ackerley's "My Father and Myself" (praised because it has "no such fashionable anti-societal doctrine to impart"), and concluded that "Ackerley's homosexual memoir is the more masculine—if that word still has meaning—of the two books.
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I know it's tricky to try to show a depiction of a person without including concepts of masculinity or femininity, but I think that as long as the designer tries to be sensitive in only using kind of visual cues that are common to both genders, then it can be left to the interpretation of whoever is sending or receiving the emoji as to do they think it's adequate to depict just a person, or does it look more masculine or feminine to them.
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The reasons are as pervasive as the air we breathe: because sexism is still confused with nature as racism once was; because anything that affects males is seen as more serious than anything that affects "only" the female half of the human race; because children are still raised mostly by women (to put it mildly) so men especially tend to feel they are regressing to childhood when dealing with a powerful woman; because racism stereotyped black men as more "masculine" for so long that some white men find their presence to be masculinity-affirming (as long as there aren't too many of them); and because there is still no "right" way to be a woman in public power without being considered a you-know-what.
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